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out of raw self-interest; the racist policies necessitate racist ideas to justify them—lingers over the life of racism.
Ibram X. Kendi • How to Be an Antiracist

“In life the challenge is not so much to figure out how best to play the game; the challenge is to figure out what game you’re playing.”
Brain Food: The Invisible Advantage
Racial-group behavior is a figment of the racist’s imagination. Individual behaviors can shape the success of individuals. But policies determine the success of groups.
Ibram X. Kendi • How to Be an Antiracist
In life the challenge is not so much to figure out how best to play the game; the challenge is to figure out what game you’re playing.
—Kwame Anthony Appiah
The judges, however, wisely rejected that argument, quoting Thurgood Marshall's observation that given the mysteries of human motivation, “it would be unwise to presume as a matter of law that human beings of one definable group will not discriminate against other members of their group.”
Randall Kennedy • Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word
in what James calls a ‘pluralistic universe’ we should be seeing where and when essentialism works for us and where and when it is unduly limiting. We would not be assuming whether essentialism or anti-essentialism was to be preferred, but rather adding them to our repertoire of useful descriptions. We might take these – the essentialist and the an
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Petrine Archer-Straw • Negrophilia: A double-edged infatuation
So I do not pity my seven-year-old self for identifying racially as Black. I still identify as Black. Not because I believe Blackness, or race, is a meaningful scientific category but because our societies, our policies, our ideas, our histories, and our cultures have rendered race and made it matter. I am among those who have been degraded by raci
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